The scene in Arizona was ugly in so many ways due to the massive amount of race baiting hysteria. Even though it’s very likely the new immigration bill will unintentionally use racial profiling to enforce the law—almost half a million illegal residents shouldn’t be in Arizona which the state’s immigration advocate groups won’t publicly denounce. I'm asking myself, where is the compromise on this issue --because the state wants to enforce the federal laws (they refuse to comprehensively enforce) and the immigration groups want open borders. I'm sorry to say, but the governor told the open borders groups to take a hike.
The public mockery of this issue on television was almost comparable to a 24/7 George Bush press conference--- incomplete sentences, irrational thoughts, and the incapability of talking about an issue beyond emotional thoughts. Watching the crazy Arizona republican party vs. the illegal immigrant supporters is hopefully the political blood-bath that forces the hand of the federal government to provide stability on this issue. There's a reason why 70% of Arizona residents support this legislation (even thought 53% are concerned about the racial profiling aspects) is because they have had enough of an open borders campaign.
The reality of the situation is that Arizona has the constitutional power to enforce immigration laws on a state level--due to the fact the federal government has failed to enforce federal laws already on the books. The governor of Arizona is taking a play from Obama’s healthcare playbook (I mean Bush’s playbook)— I can do what I want and if you don’t like it you can take me court. Jennifer Brewer is only following the same rules of the last two presidents.
Only in America can a group of people come here illegally by breaking a law--but protest the state when they enforce those laws for committing the crime they did indeed break by crossing the United States border without legal citizenship. (As a side note, this does not take into affect the amount of socio-economic baiting that goes with companies looking for cheap labor--that lacks illegal enforcement) However, the feds have no socio-economic/politic interest in implementing comprehensive immigration reform that tackles the problem from both the front and back end. The demonstration by the crazy Republican party in Arizona is the chaotic result when Washington keeps it thumbs up its ass for it's pure benefit. There is no way in hell immigration reform will pass prior to November unless Democrats want to lose even more seats.
To take the immigration commentary to the big picture state-- please tell me why, the President who supported building a border fence prior to running for the Democratic nomination for president and then slightly demphasized that support when running in the primaries? The reality is that Obama is playing politics with the Latinos on this issue, but really does support hardcore enforcement of the border that emphasizes an ethical path to citizenship for illegals from Mexico/Latin America. But it has to be done in a timely, but sequential manner that doesn't negatively impact Democratic control until 2012. (This is because the Obama base is more exclusive then the historical Democratic base--They are two different types of electorates).
These article down below--shows that Obama does have influence on the deportation numbers countrywide. Does this make Obama racist to be in support of deporting more people who have broken laws to come into this country illegally?
From March 8th , 2010
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Immigration rights activists said Monday that deportations have jumped nearly 50 percent under President Barack Obama despite a pledge by the president for a more compassionate immigration policy.
A total of 387,790 people were deported from the United States in 2009, up from 264,503 under the administration of President George W. Bush, according to government figures cited by the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, a coalition of several organizations.
"We are asking President Obama for an immediate halt to deportations and to show leadership to advance immigration reform," said Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.
"This is not sound economic policy or moral policy, this is not leadership nor change we can believe in," said Pramila Jayapal, executive director of One America, one of the groups participating.
Border fence links
http://www.pbs.org/...